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Hi Zane,

Generally, I think it's a very good idea just like I said in the IRC 
channel. I will review the spec and thank you for proposing it.

On 19/05/16 06:49, Zane Bitter wrote:
> I've been lobbying the Mistral developers for $SUBJECT since, 
> basically, forever.[1][2][3] I like to think after a couple of years I 
> succeeded in changing their view on it from "crazy" to merely 
> "unrealistic".[4] In the last few months I've had a couple of 
> realisations though:
>
> 1) The 'pull' model I've been suggesting is the wrong one, 
> architecturally speaking. It's asking Mistral to do too much to poll 
> Zaqar queues.
> 2) A 'push' model is the correct architecture and it already exists in 
> the form of Zaqar's Notifications, which suddenly makes this goal look 
> very realistic indeed.
>
> I've posted a Zaqar spec for this here:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/318202/
>
> Not being super familiar with either project myself, I think this 
> needs close scrutiny from Mistral developers as well as Zaqar 
> developers to make sure I haven't got any of the details wrong. I'd 
> also welcome any volunteers interested in implementing this :)
>
>
> One more long-term thing that I did *not* mention in the spec: there 
> are both Zaqar notifications and Mistral actions for sending email and 
> hitting webhooks. These are two of the hardest things for a cloud 
> operator to secure. It would be highly advantageous if there were only 
> _one_ place in OpenStack where these were implemented. Either project 
> would potentially work - Zaqar notifications could call a simple, 
> operator defined workflow behind the scenes for email/webhook 
> notifications; alternatively the Mistral email/webhook actions could 
> drop a message on a Zaqar queue connected to a notification - although 
> the former sounds easier to me. (And of course clouds with only one of 
> the services available could fall back to the current plugins.) 
> Something to think about for the future...
>
> cheers,
> Zane.
>
> [1] 
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-April/062617.html
> [2] 
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-May/063884.html
> [3] Also in-person at every summit since at least Juno :)
> [4] 
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-May/063904.html
>
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